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Intellectual Disability and Vietnam

Posted onNovember 13, 2017February 7, 2019 By David Perry

This is an incredible article on, as they were called at the time, “McNamara’s Morons,” people with intellectual disabilities drafted into the Vietnam War. One morning in the summer of 1967, I was among about 100 men at the Armed Forces induction center in Nashville. It was the height of the Vietnam War, and I … Continue ReadingIntellectual Disability and Vietnam

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